The Black Death was also known as the Plague, and Giovanni Boccacio describes his experience living through one of the most devastating times in history. The Black Death was unbearable and horrifying in the mid 1300’s. Gavoccioli was the cause of the Black Death and it began with a horrible sickness that spread significantly. This sickness was sourced from a pathogenic strain of bacterium which may have caused several different forms of the plague. People who had gavoccioli would see parts of their body start to swell and tumors would develop underneath an individual’s armpits, around the arm and leg regions. These tumors had black spots and the sickness was untreatable causing multiple deaths. The Black Death impacted many families in Europe causing an extreme collapse in the Italian urban civilization politically, economically, and socially.
Gavoccioli was extremely contagious and this impacted the economy tremendously. The sickness wiped out a large population in Europe. Anyone who touched the clothes of someone who contained the sickness would infect the individual. During this part of history, many Europeans were working as farmers, military men, and craftsmen. Unfortunately, there was not a great amount of …show more content…
Families were abandoning each other leaving their cities to exclude themselves from the sick population. A husband and wife would desert their children to save themselves because there was not cure or any aid they could provide to prevent fatalities. Servants would abandon their duties which lead to starvation. The population was afraid to consume any food or water because chaos erupted and no one knew what food or drink was safe to consume. The lack of medical knowledge caused panic, and the amount of deaths increased exponentially. Treatments, medications, and anti-biotics were not discovered, and the bacterium continued to spread affecting northern and southern